Deep Down Heavy - Bob Downes

FIRST EVER CD
RELEASE OF THE CLASSIC 1970 ALBUM BY BOB DOWNES

REMASTERED
FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

BOOKLET WITH
FULLY RESTORED ARTWORK & ESSAY

ESOTERIC
RECORDINGS are proud to announce the first official release of the classic 1970
album by BOB DOWNES "Deep Down Heavy”. Celebrated Jazz saxophonist and flautist
BOB DOWNES’ album first appeared on EMI’s budget MFP label, arguably the only
Progressive Jazz album ever issued by the label. The work was a collaboration
with lyricist Robert Cockburn and was an outstanding eccentric example of Jazz
Rock with Progressive and even Psychedelic influences. The music and songs
featured contributions from the leading lights of British Jazz Rock such as
CHRIS SPEDDING, RAY RUSSELL and ALAN RUSHTON, interspersed with poetry by
Robert Cockburn (recorded on location on London buses and Underground trains).

The jazz groove
of the music was present on tracks such as ‘Walking On’, ‘Don’t Let Tomorrow
Get You Down’ and ‘Poplar Cheam’, leading the album to be sampled three decades
later by DJs and Mixers.

Remastered from
the original master tapes, this Esoteric Recordings reissue is long overdue.
The time is right to rediscover the open music of "Deep Down Heavy”, one of THE
lost treasures of the Progressive and Psychedelic era.